Posted on 06/01/2011 12:10:40 PM PDT by doug from upland
Rep. Anthony Weiner says he “can’t say with certitude” that the lewd photo of a man’s crotch sent using his Twitter account to one of his followers isn’t of him.
“I didn’t send that picture out,” Weiner said in an interview with NBC News.
“That’s not a picture of you?” reporter Luke Russert asked.
Weiner responded: “You know, I can’t say with certitude.”
The New York Democrat continued to claim that a hacker sent the photo to a 21-year-old college co-ed in Seattle.
“My system was hacked, pictures can be manipulated, dropped in and inserted,” he said. “One reason I asked a firm to look at what the heck happened here … is to see maybe something was manipulated, maybe something was dropped in.”
“We don’t know for sure what happened here,” Weiner added. “But let’s try to take a step back. This is a circumstance where someone committed a prank on the internet, spoofed me, made fun of me, whatever. We’re taking it seriously in as much we want to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Weiner hasn’t called for an official investigation by the FBI or Capitol Police, although he told Russert he has hired a private “securty firm” to find out what happened. Previously, Weiner had said he hired a lawyer to investigate.
“We don’t know exactly what happened here. It was a prank,” Weiner said.
But Weiner hasn’t sought a criminal probe because “it is not a national security thing — I’m not sure I want to put national federal resources into trying to figure out who posted a picture on Weiner’s website of whatever. I’m not really sure it rises, no pun intended, to that level.”
“And let me say one other thing,” he added. “I think it’s fair and reasonable to ask some of the questions. It was a prank, still, I think it’s fair to ask the question. I think we have to be careful not to take this out of context. this is not a national security matter. This is not an instance — we’re not making a federal case out of this and I don’t think anyone else should. But the things I do want to work on in Congress here are being interrupted by this, which I think is the intention of the person that did this to begin with.”
Maybe they are in the dark?
We have precedent...
Frank, Clinton, Jackson, etc.......
This should be every bit the career ender as it was for the Congressman accused of prowling Craigslist for trannies with shirtless pictures.
In fact, these photos are worse. Which one of them would get arrested on a beach for approaching a young woman? It’s not the bare chested man.
Weiner will need to caucus with Barney’s Frank before disclosing any more information.
The saddest part of this whole story may be Jon Stewart being overwhelmed by the size of the package concerned.
It is time for him to be a man and admit what he did. Then Congress can decide what to do with him. This lying SOB is claiming a federal crime was committed by a hacker. Dan Wolfe, a possible suspect (which he has denied), has received death threats. This is out of hand, Weiner.
“Weiner looks like someone who was given A LOT of wedgies as a kid..just look at him..he makes Pee Wee Herman look normal”
I remember someone posting his HS yearbook photo here and commenting that he looked like someone who got stuffed into lockers a lot.
But how does he know those are his underwear? America has fallen so far. Can’t believe this is the news of the day. Just sad.
With junk that tiny, I can say with certitude that he doesn’t have to worry about beating off the women with a stick.
You know what this incident and picture needs to be put under the micro-scope........literally.
He is SO busted!
Wennie is an anoying little person with a big mouth who never answers any questions he is asked.
Even used car saleman don’t trust him and if did’nt have a refelction in the mirror he would not have any trusting friends.
“IT WAS A BOTCHED JOKE!”
lol! Nice job!
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